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Solar Islands: A new concept for low-cost solar energy at very large scale

Posted by Francois Cellier on May 20, 2008 - 12:49pm in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Alternative energy
Tags: alternative energy, concentrating solar power, energy supply, solar island, solar power [list all tags]

This is a guest post by Dr. Thomas Hinderling. Dr. Hinderling is the CEO of CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA. One of CSEM's most exciting projects concerns the design of a new class of large scale concentrating solar power systems, called Solar Islands ¹. This article introduces the solar island design to the readers of TOD ².

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